Don't worry; nothing really exists || Acharya Prashant, Vedant Mahotsav at IISc Bangalore (2022)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00My name is Sneha and I have been listening to you for almost 3 years.

00:08Through your videos, I have taken many major decisions in life.

00:12One decision was to get separated from my husband.

00:16Though he is also a very avid fan of yours.

00:19In fact, he encouraged me to come and attend your session today.

00:23This is a bit background about me.

00:27My question is regarding one of the commentaries by Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

00:34in a book called Upanishad. Commentaries on Upanishad by him.

00:38He has mentioned that everything is rising and falling

00:43to merge in one vast consciousness.

00:47Everything that is happening in the universe.

00:50Now, certain times during meditation, there is this realization.

00:56The realization of this fact, what he says, for a nanosecond.

01:00Mind, though it realizes it, how does it hold this truth for a longer time?

01:05Because it goes away.

01:07It just comes, that realization comes for a very fluke second.

01:12By not seeing things as they are not.

01:16You see things as if they are permanent.

01:19As if they are things.

01:21As if they exist.

01:23Whereas they are just flowing.

01:25They don't exist.

01:27They are just processes.

01:29When you see everything as just a flow,

01:33then you realize it has no permanence, no existence.

01:37It's gone. Finished.

01:40But that requires a very courageous mind

01:44to continuously see things as rising and falling,

01:50continuously appearing and disappearing.

01:54We do not always summon that kind of courage.

01:59We let attachment dominate us.

02:06And then the world appears as truth,

02:15not as something that is en route to a disappearance or dissolution or liberation.

02:26You'll have to continuously practice detachment.

02:35You'll have to be continuously on guard.

02:41There are no things.

02:47There are only waves.

02:52Waves.

02:55Right?

02:57The crest and the trough.

03:00Fab and the flow.

03:07And then you can see.

03:11Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright.

03:14Came.

03:17Gone.

03:19It is.

03:21And then it is not.

03:25You'll have to practice going a little beyond,

03:29sometimes a little against your senses.

03:33The senses are not subtle enough to capture

03:39the moment-to-moment appearance, change and disappearance.

03:47Right?

03:48As you are looking at me, you will feel you have a person sitting in front of you

03:53and the person is just the same as he was when he was answering the previous question.

04:00That's not true.

04:03Right?

04:05Things have changed.

04:09They are not things.

04:11They are just a process, an ever-changing mass of flow.

04:21Then one is liberated of the biggest obstacle to freedom.

04:33Belief in existence.

04:36Belief in permanence.

04:40It's one and the same thing to say that all this is not permanent

04:43and to say that all this does not exist.

04:46Because when we say something exists,

04:49we accord it permanence at least for a while, no?

04:53When we say this exists.

04:55By that we mean that this will stay at least for two days, ten days, twenty days.

05:00Right?

05:01So, impermanence is the same as non-existence.

05:09When there is non-existence, then only truth exists.

05:18So, can I ask a question?

05:20So, as you said, I mean what I take away is that it's the practice.

05:26I mean the mind has to remind itself continuously on a regular frequency.

05:33Because mind is generally prone to separation, fragmentation.

05:37It loses the track immediately.

05:40So, that needs immense attention all the time.

05:43And courage and stamina.

05:46When you do it once, twice, thrice, it is okay.

05:49Then you get tired and bored.

05:52Plus there are temptations.

05:55It is pleasurable to believe that you will last or she will last or he will last.

06:02There is security in that.

06:04Comfort in that.

06:06So, I said we do not summon the requisite courage.

06:12Always be courageous.

06:15Always.

06:16Even in the moment of impending pleasure, be courageous enough to block it.

06:24You see, this pleasure is at the cost of truth.

06:28This pleasure is only if I make myself deliberately oblivious to the truth.

06:36Only then I can have this pleasure.

06:39Then I will not have this pleasure.

06:41The truth is paramount.

06:43And when you say the truth is paramount, then what you get is the pleasure of the truth.

06:48And that's a higher pleasure than ordinary pleasures.

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